Films like Approved for Adoption.

Approved for Adoption (2012) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured memoir / adoption, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Colorful (2010) poster
1. Colorful2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Delhi-6 (2009) poster
2. Delhi-62009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Closet Monster (2016) poster
3. Closet Monster2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

I, Don Giovanni (2009) poster
4. I, Don Giovanni2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018) poster
5. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Mermaid (2007) poster
6. Mermaid2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Test2006
7. Test2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Sheikh Jackson (2017) poster
8. Sheikh Jackson2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A Cat in Paris (2010) (2010) poster
9. A Cat in Paris2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Madame Brouette (2002) poster
10. Madame Brouette2002

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Soul Boy (2010) poster
11. Soul Boy2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Xenia (2014) poster
12. Xenia2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Approved for Adoption’s neighbours — where are yours?

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